Post by FUZZRRITO on Mar 22, 2013 12:20:50 GMT -8

That is fucking ridiculous. I always think of show prices vs. an hourly rate, like how much do I want to pay this artist per hour to play for me. My highest tier is $100 per hour, and that is pretty much just Bjork.

Post by Cbats on Mar 22, 2013 12:25:13 GMT -8

I mean, I could write a long post explaining how supply and demand works and if he didn't charge an arm and a leg scalpers would but I won't. When I said he doesn't care about money I meant that's why he's playing in clubs that hold about 1000 people rather than 10,000+ person arenas.

Post by Cbats on Mar 22, 2013 12:26:08 GMT -8

That is fucking ridiculous. I always think of show prices vs. an hourly rate, like how much do I want to pay this artist per hour to play for me. My highest tier is $100 per hour, and that is pretty much just Bjork.

his shows go 3 or 4 hours so the hourly rate almost becomes reasonable

Post by emptyfox on Mar 22, 2013 15:23:01 GMT -8

I mean, I could write a long post explaining how supply and demand works and if he didn't charge an arm and a leg scalpers would but I won't. When I said he doesn't care about money I meant that's why he's playing in clubs that hold about 1000 people rather than 10,000+ person arenas.

The tickets are will call only with ID of original CC holder. He didn't have to charge $275 to offset scalping.

Post by kymess_jr on Mar 22, 2013 16:38:46 GMT -8

That is fucking ridiculous. I always think of show prices vs. an hourly rate, like how much do I want to pay this artist per hour to play for me. My highest tier is $100 per hour, and that is pretty much just Bjork.

his shows go 3 or 4 hours so the hourly rate almost becomes reasonable

There's no way he's playing more than 2 hours since for the Vancouver shows the first one starts at 8pm and then doors reopen at 10:30pm for the second show (starts at 11:30).

I wonder how long it'll take to sell out? Yesterday when news broke of these shows everyone was creaming themselves over this, yet here it is hours later and tickets are easily available and all I'm seeing is people saying its way too much to pay. I fully expected this to sell out in minutes, though I guess will call only (so no scalping) has had a huge effect on that. If it was closer to $175 with service charges, I would've sprung for it but I feel as if it's priced just out of the reasonable range.

Post by Geoffrey Jellineck on Mar 23, 2013 15:18:28 GMT -8

Tickets are $175 at the Roseland in Portland for GA, $300 for balcony seats. Either way, too much money for me.

Ya, what the fuck? People wouldn't have even paid this much in his prime. And that was before he became a Jehovah Witness and started censoring his own music. If you're dropping a few hundo to see Prince, you best be hearing some sexy jams and seeing some pelvic thrusts.